Mayver's Dark Roasted Smooth Peanut Butter

Rating: 10/10

• Served with: Homemade choccy protein spread (vegan chocolate protein powder, cocoa powder, sweetener, a dash of flavour enhancer) & sliced banana, toasted Helga’s wholemeal & seeds bread
• 🥜 Category: Peanut, Smooth, Plain
• Country of origin: Australia

This is my Platonic ideal of a peanut butter. Perfect, absolute, eternal(ly stocked in my pantry).

I was going to make my famous stovetop oatmeal protein porridge (or the baked version) for breakfast this morning. Proatmeal is my favourite kind of breakfast before a long day at the office when I’m not sure I can create a balanced snack to get me through the morning, or at least squeeze something in before a lunchtime run. Perhaps in an alternate universe (aka the weekend) I would also have also made a berry compote to go with it.

But alas. I was tired and decided to sleep in for an extra 10 minutes - which meant I was multitasking and had to go for the old faithful morning toast (but with added protein). That’s the thing, though - this beautiful gorgeous divine nut butter is the workhorse of my pantry. It’s delightfully peanutty - it is a peanut butter for peanut butter lovers, all punchy peanut and no gimmicks. It works a treat dolloped on top of my porridge to add some saltiness and richness to balance the sweetness of whatever seasonal fruit I choose to pair it with (spiced pears or apples in winter; tart berries in spring; a tropical mix of mango and pineapple in summer; bananas any time). You can taste the peanut through something as rich as the umami-laden chocolate protein spread I concoct in the morning. The texture works to make a quick peanutty sauce for no-fuss stir-fries.

Yes, it is a natural peanut butter and does not fit the ‘never oily, never dry’ slogan - like any natural peanut butter it requires some love after leaving to sit in your pantry for a little bit. But love takes work, and if you take care of your jar of Mayver’s Dark Roasted Smooth Peanut Butter by flipping it once in a while, or stirring it with your butter knife every time you need to use it (bonus - if you get too much on your knife it’s a chef’s snack), it will love you back.

Highly recommend for anyone who wants to take their peanut butter obsession to the next level.